National Portrait Gallery

MGF was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown , commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke and painted in 1874...

AF was painted in a miniature by Peter Cross (now in the National Portrait Gallery ) round about 1690. She left another, later miniature of her by Zincke in her will to Lady Hertford ...

A striking photographic portrait of CH by Lena Connell , taken in 1912, is now in the National Portrait Gallery . Connell also photographed other theatre notables such as Edith Craig .

EJ had her portrait painted by an unknown artist (the canvas now resides at the National Portrait Gallery ), wearing a red silk dress and displaying several of her publications including a splendidly bound copy...

This portrait was engraved in the 1770s by Henry Richard Cook , and by Francesco Bartolozzi for S. and E. Harding 's abortive 1793 edition of her Shakespear Illustrated. The painting itself does not...

Meanwhile the Rice portrait (so called from the family which now owns it) emerged into the light of scholarly controversy. This attractive full-length painting shows a lively, intelligent-looking adolescent girl, dark in colouring, wearing a...

The National Portrait Gallery holds a painting of NS done in 1926 by Lewis Baumer , in profile, which shows her looking cool and elegant and modern.

The National Portrait Gallery holds a painting of GLM as an imposing, unbending figure, her hand possessively placed on a stack of her wrirings.

In December 2011 a more formal portrait came before the public as representing Austen. Dated by the (extremely stylish) clothes to about 1815, this drawing in graphite or plumbago on vellum shows a seated woman...

ALB was in general unwilling to have any picture made of her (which casts some doubt on the six images said to be of her in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery ). But...

Anne Damer , who broke new ground for women by her serious pursuit of a career as a sculptor, on 6 December 1793 completed a terracotta bust of MB (now in the National Portrait Gallery

MS studied singing for years, flirted with painting (as she put it), and had an enduring love-affair with gardening. A perceptive acquaintance said, Mary paints as if she were writing. She was painted...

The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky did a portrait of IM in 1964, commissioned by St Anne's College . Years later Tom Phillips painted her for the National Portrait Gallery , posed in front of Titian

After Mansfield's death, Woolf wrote in her diary: it seemed to me there was no point in writing. Katherine won't read it.KM appears in episodes in more than one novel by her friend...

An oil portrait of Hardie by SP hangs in the National Portrait Gallery . Another, in chalk, is also extant. She produced at this time a self-portrait, also in the National Portrait Gallery, in which...